Long Labor of love Poems

I inherited a restaurant, from my parents who had retired.
It was a classy one, and only the best of staff were hired.

Overseeing its operation, was genuinely a labor of love,
As the noon warming sunshine, oversees...

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those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...

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* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends with a moral lesson that humanity still hasn't learned, sadly.

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Upon exiting the womb...

23,190 days ago,

Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-number/.

Come November 15, 2022
(a little more than
four months from now -
actually one hundred twenty days
after today July 11, 2022),
the world's...

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Multicultural Appreciative Design
begins with how we nutritionally feel,
nurtured or afflicted,
invested or divested,
resonant and/or dissonant about a few issues,
spiritually healthy
and naturally wealthy 
growing out
into more robust global matters.

Polycultural win/win outcome strategies
follow principles of cooperative economy
and regenerative...

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Under the colorful leaves 
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read

I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...

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Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eight hours ago
power outage affected more than
half a million people
in mid-Atlantic states.

Residents in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
(the poet's hometown)
smack dab...

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According to a young boy's warning visit to hell there is a tattoo artist in hell who is receiving both his own tattoos and being tormented by demons! All because he gave other people tattoos...

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Poetry as well as writing are both gifts and labors of love.
Jesus Christ has freely bestowed  upon me his gifts of
Writing and poetry. I am primarily an inspirational/ 
Christian poetic writer.  It is...

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I feel my ears pop,
As the light above me increases ...
Columns of purple sunshine shimmer and dance.
I swim up out of the cool, inky blackness of the depths,

And finally reach the surface, head bobbing like...

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The past is ash, you gotta rise like the phoenix, don’t like it call your mama and ask for a Kleenex. The time is long past due to stop thinkin’ and start doin’, start rootin’...

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i took her riding
this time my venue, not hers
she loves horses, i am no equestrian
i am beyond saddle sore now
trail rides where every bird is identified
a short illumination of the species
mine are in this little...

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All but these bonds who forged ironies chain's                           ...

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MY PHONE!

 

Links me within a blink

A quick access to the link

I am far, but just right there

Very near, but miles far away

An awesome chip, which links all trip

My phone, a priceless keep

 

Sixth sense...

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TO AND IN THE NATURE OF AWARENESS GRACE


A fall morning drive presents an interesting ride.
Looking out into he roadside forest palisade,
Eyes fall upon two age-old stoic trees still clothed
In their branches’ waving illuminating green leaves:-
Like...

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You Can Do It,

Yo brotha, I know you 25,
Tryin’ to stay alive,
On the south side,
You ain’t got no friends,
Since you turned away from sin,
And the sex be callin’ you back into her arms,
It’s like there...

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MY MODEL PLANE

Way back, when I was 12 years old,
I built a model airplane with my Dad,
It was a great experience, but most of all,
We spent some time together, and for that I was glad.

The...

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Thank you God for all that you have given me
You pulled me through, the worst 5 years of my life
But I realize for the first time, I am truly living my life
On a journey with...

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Timeless

Auspicious occasions
times thrice too many
for a star to pivot and
               ~~bunker
involving breathless
nebulous palls chances
forded o'er aroused
     ...

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The River

As the Lord looked down from on His lofty throne
upon Tampa’s spiritually parched and barren land
His eyes began to swell with tears
and fall upon the surrounding scorched sand.

He then opened His mouth and spoke,...

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Voting With One's Feet
(American Peace Corps Volunteers)
Let me sing the 'American Peace Corps,'
Its heart for so much of the world
Though by governments youth are exploited,
There brotherhood's flag flapped unfurled.

Some who served on return would get...

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(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)


Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas” 
all in the world forget the truth. 

Remember that all have their rights...

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Mr. and Mrs. Wonderland, exciting plans confiscating misery and sorrow from the spirits of the people of the land. Trade bad memories for joyful memories that eternally last. No admission fee necessary blue, green, red,...

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It doesn't always work all of the time.
I can't recall a day in my 2 weeks here
that I've successfully managed to suspend my decline.
I go to work in my usual way,
I stare down to the...

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I have great admiration for the people who labors
Whether it’s labor in love
In deeds
In loving kindness
Or in everyday mundane things
Did you know that your deeds are not gone unnoticed?
Whether to be noticed by me, ha
Or...

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